Ostad
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ostad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 19K(measured from records)
- IRIran≈1 in 890K
- SESweden1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
284 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ostad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 284 | 1 in 19K | 284 | Ostad | 4 |
| IN India | 189 | 1 in 7M | 189 | Ostad | 6 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Ostad | 100 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Ostad | 4 |
| IR Iran | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 890K | — | Ostad | 27 |
| DE Germany | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Ostad | 32 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | Ostad | 6 |
284 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Birger Ostadb. 1932NONorwegian politician (1932-1998)
- Snorre A. Ostadb. 1935NONorwegian author
- Tom Rikard Ostadb. 1968NONorwegian cartoonist, crossword maker, musician
- Torhild Ostadb. 1969NONorwegian singer
- Sandra Ostadb. 1990NONorwegian artistic gymnast
- Seyed Nasser Ostadb. 2000IRresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 284 | #5,451 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 189 | #18,406 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,740 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Ostad have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 284 people named Ostad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ostad.
- Where is Ostad most common?
- Ostad is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ostad?
- In Norway, the national register counted 284 people named Ostad, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ostad?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ostadThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ostad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.